On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Sander Hartveld wrote: > Paul Howarth, > > Thanks for your reply, I wil try this tonight! > > Cheers, Sander > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of > Sent: donderdag 25 november 2004 11:23 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: [inbox] Re: Bios does not support boot from cd > > Sander Hartveld wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I have a old pentium 133 Mhz with 80MB Ram wich does not support > > boot from > > cdrom. I do have a floppy drive , a non bootable CD-rom drive and > > 2 GB hard > > drive. How to start my installation now? > > I do have redhat 9 installed. > > Take the initrd.img and vmlinuz files from the images/pxeboot directory of > your install media and copy them to /boot of your Red Hat 9 installation. > > If you have no separate /boot partition, add the following entry to your > /etc/grub.conf: > > title Fedora Core Install/Upgrade > root (hd0,0) <- use the same value here as for your existing > entries > kernel /boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192 > initrd /boot/initrd.img > > If you have a separate /boot partition, add the following entry to your > /etc/grub.conf: > > title Fedora Core Install/Upgrade > root (hd0,0) <- use the same value here as for your existing > entries > kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192 > initrd /initrd.img > > Then, reboot and you should be able to boot into the installer. since i just asked about this sort of thing yesterday, i figure i'd throw in my $0.03 Cdn. rather than copy the pxeboot-related files "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" directly into /boot, where they have a tendency to get lost amidst all of the rest of the files there (and might overwrite existing files of the same name), you'd be safer creating a /boot/pxeboot directory and copying them *there*, then set your grub.conf file to refer to the files in that subdirectory. yes, it's probably overkill, but no, you can never be too paranoid. rday
